On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:29:19AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Agreed. Writing in English is pretty tough anyway... You write far better English than I can write Japanese... > branden> Is it like grep (perhaps a multi-byte character aware grep)? > > No, it's much more like glimpse or Alta Vista or something like that. > It indexes a bunch of files, store those information in a(maybe some) > database, and you can query it to search through all of them. > > It has various interfaces(CGI, Tcl/Tk client, Emacs client, et cetra.). > > BTW, Debian seems to use glimpse for mailing list archive search. AFAIK > The license of glimpse is miserably non-free, so why don't we use > Namazu instead? > > Debian JP uses Namazu for their own ML archive search for years, and > the performance and robustness seems to be pretty well IMHO. > And one more good thing, Namazu has been i18ned. This sounds utterly awesome, especially since the Debian website itself is currently without a search engine. Perhaps Namazu is up to the task? -- G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what refuses to go away when Debian GNU/Linux | I stop believing in it. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Philip K. Dick roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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